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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Destruction of the steamer Schultz by the explosion of a torpedo. (search)
Destruction of the steamer Schultz by the explosion of a torpedo. --On Friday afternoon last, the steamer Schultz, commanded by Captain D. J. Hill, was destroyed by running afoul of a torpedo in James river, between Cox's landing and Chaffin's bluff. Our contemporary of the Whig has been furnished with the following particulars of the unfortunate occurrence: "The Schultz had gone down in the morning to Cox's landing, in company with the steamer William Allison, for the purpose of bringing up a number of our expected returned prisoners of war, who were to have been received at that point. By a Providential interposition — in view of the subsequent catastrophe that befell the Schultz — our expected braves did not arrive at the landing in time to embark upon the two steamers that were awaiting them. The fog, it is said, delayed the arrival of the Yankee truce boats at Varina, the point at which our men were to have disembarked. Information having arrived that our men woul